Today Argentina celebrates 200 years of the revolution that led to independence. Happy birthday from province 25th :-) Note: Argentina has 23 provinces and an autonomous city (Buenos Aires). “Province 25th” refers to all of us living abroad.

Tailspin Surveys is a multitenant, SaaS solution, targeting many different customers. Some of these customers might be “enterprise” with “Big-IT” and are likely to demand advanced integration capabilities for identity (e.g. identity federation). Others...

These series of posts dealt with various aspects of dealing with failures while saving information on Windows Azure Storage: Windows Azure Guidance - Additional notes on failure recovery on Windows Azure Windows Azure Guidance – Failure recovery and data...

I just uploaded new versions of the docs that make up our guide. No major changes, but some wordsmithing and professional graphics. I do enjoy doing the whiteboard like graphics, and we have kept that spirit in the guide, but we have them redone professionally...

Fabio asked me on twitter “why there’re no dequeue , peek and enqueue on Windows Azure Queues?”   One of the most common patterns for interactions with queues is this:     You get the message from the queue. This is not a “dequeue”, even...

In the previous post , my question was about a small change in the code that would yield a big improvement. The answer is:   What changed? No try / catch We reversed the order of writes : first we write the details, then we write the “header” or...

I had some great answers on my previous post question, like Simone ’s. Some where closer than others, but in general you got it right, Thanks! The recovery strategy depicted there assumes that all failures are external . That is, writing to a table fails...